IN THE MATTER OF MAY

No. 1-975A163.

358 N.E.2d 138 (1976)

In the matter of Danny J. May, Appellant, et al., Respondents in Proceeding for Direct Contempt of Court Upon the Complaint of the Hon. Paul R. Schnaitter, Judge of the Switzerland Circuit Court.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

December 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Davy Eaglesfield, III, Indianapolis, F. Thomas Schornhorst, Bloomington, for appellant.

Charles W. Cooper, Cooper, Cox, Jacobs & Kemper, Ted R. Todd, Hensley, Todd, Hocker & Castor, Merritt K. Alcorn, Leninger, Eckert & Alcorn, Madison, for appellees.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Walter F. Lockhart, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Indianapolis, for amici curiae.


ROBERTSON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of direct criminal contempt arising out of statements made by May in a motion to correct errors and in a complaint for declaratory judgment filed in the Switzerland Circuit Court.

The issues upon appeal are whether the action was defective because the State was not made a party to the action; whether the judge of the Switzerland Circuit Court had jurisdiction...

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